Windows 10: OneDrive sync errors on W10 - odd paths and renamed files

Hello,I have persistent issues with OneDrive syncing. Here are a couple of problems that are happening:1 Excel files, e.g., will have trouble syncing and will revert to a random number. For example, "Scott's Excel File.xlsx" becomes "1364358.xlsx". Excel will be pointing to a directory with a recursive structure, like "personal\scott\documents\documents\.tmp.driveupload". I can navigate back to the original parent directory "personal\scott\documents", and overwrite the original file with the original name and it will work awhile till this happens again. 2 Excel and PowerPoint will both get s

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Renaming files in OneDrive while it is syncing is frustrating because it highlights the entire name of the file. How to avoid this?

Hi VividhKothari,

In that case will suggest to pause the synchronization if you are constantly renaming files name, then as soon you finished resume the synchronization.

From Word you can save the file with the desire name and avoid going to the local one drive path to rename the file, by using Save as then selecting OneDrive path.

Hope that helps

 

Cannot rename files and folders in OneDrive

Hi,

Failure to rename the folders stored in your OneDrive folder may indicate a possible sync error. As an initial step to refresh OneDrive, you can unlink the account by performing the steps provided on this

link to re-sync your folders. Once your done, check if you encounter the same error.

In addition, sign-in to your account through
onedrive.live.com and check if you can rename folders through the web.

We'll appreciate if you can send us an update.

 

OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync




"At Ignite 2016, Microsoft has just announced that it is bringing Placeholders back to OneDrive on Windows 10. Now, they are not called Placeholders anymore — Microsoft is renaming the feature to “On-Demand Sync” which makes a lot more sense than “Placeholders”.

The company demoed this feature at Microsoft Ignite today, and it works just like it used to previously. As you can see in the screenshot above, the files stored in OneDrive weighed in around 9GB, but the actual size on disk was only around 3MB which is really neat. Of course, this feature isn’t anything new as it was available back in the Windows 8 days. However, Microsoft removed the feature with Windows 10, and after lots of waiting, they are finally coming back.

In case you are not familiar with OneDrive Placeholders, it’s a pretty neat feature which lets you see all of your OneDrive files on your computer — but they are not actually downloaded on your PC. When you open them, OneDrive will download the files on-demand, saving your local space which is really useful, especially if you have a PC that doesn’t have a lot of storage.

While Microsoft didn’t announce when exactly On-Demand Sync will be available to OneDrive users, we suspect it will be available with Windows 10 Redstone 2 — which is expected to arrive early next year. "

OneDrive Placeholders are coming back, now called On-Demand Sync